Principal Software Engineer, Guild Education
Applied Learning
$210-247.5k
+ Stock options
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Open for applications
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$210-247.5k
+ Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise SaaS solutions
- Experience in a scale-up SaaS business is ideal
- Proficiency in technical design and synthesis of new products and platforms within an existing complex environment and problem domain
- Ability to lead and implement technical transformation, getting products to market quickly by combining existing assets and synthesizing new ones
- Full-stack development skills, with expertise in building microservices and event-driven architectures in AWS
- Proficiency in Typescript, Python, AWS Lambda, containerized workloads, AWS RDS/Postgres, DocumentDB/Mongo, and other AWS persistence mechanisms
- Ensuring software quality through effective test automation
- Experience with CI/CD/DevOps using tools like GitHub, AWS CDK, Ansible, Terraform, etc
- Skills in system performance modeling and monitoring
- Experience in software quality assurance and test automation
- Capability to initiate and lead change
What the job involves
- This role requires a highly experienced engineer with a passion for building complex B2B SaaS products
- You will lead the technical design and actively participate in the development process, leveraging your full-stack development experience to quickly bring new product capabilities to life and iterate on them to meet market demand and scale with growth
- You will work within a diverse team to accelerate Guild’s mission and expand our market presence
- Rapidly deliver working capabilities to the market, learn from customer feedback, and iterate upon them over time
- Express the technical product vision in the form of models and technical designs
- Drive accelerated delivery by enabling other engineers to contribute and take ownership
- Leverage established patterns, practices, technologies, and platform components where applicable and make sound decisions to diverge from these when appropriate
- Be accountable for solution accuracy, timeliness, efficiency, reliability, performance, and flexibility
- Gain an understanding of existing operational business practices to design and build solutions that optimize for outcomes and scale
- Contribute to Guild’s platform inventory and advance our patterns, practices, and overall technical abilities
- Build trust with Guild stakeholders and establish a reputation for dependability and quality
- Mentor other engineers and set the bar for technical excellence through code/design reviews, pair programming, and other interactions
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Having recently closed a Series F financing round led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey, Guild Education will use this funding to further develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules, and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company values
- Nurture a learner’s mindset
- Create belonging
- Be teammates
- Build shared success
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Articles
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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